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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

Zane Grey

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Zane Grey
Age: 67 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 31
Died: 1939
Died: October 23
Author
Baseball Player
Dentist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Zanesville
Ohio
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Forgetfulness
Blood
Yield
Dark
Surely
Living
Suicide
Death
Inspire
Makes
Embrace
Better
Seek
Stain
Life
Worth
Stains

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